Quoting Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Don't get me wrong, the AMD stuff is still better, but this stuff is not that big a deal.
So basically your opinion (and I think plenty agree with you) is that they're focusing on the power problem, and will likely not be the fastest kid on the block that much (if at all) anymore. That'll help them in some markets, but in ours (EDA engineers) while power is important, raw speed tends to be far more important. If AMD keeps their lead in performance, they're market share in EDA will grow, which is a pretty large market (in number of CPUs, not necessarily companies). We keep forcasting more and more compute machines, and we're up to almost 400 hosts today, from less then 1/2 that about a year ago, and we're probably going to more then double that in the next year. As it is right now, they'll likely all be AMD. Like I said, I wish I had the money to buy some more AMD stock. :) I still don't see how they expect to get 3x the current performance at massive power savings though. That's where I'm still confused. They talk of Pentium M, but those chips aren't their fastest chips today anyway. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.miguelito.org Marge: "Homer, sitting that close to the TV can't be good for you." Homer: "Talking while the TV's on can't be good for you!" ==> Simpsons -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
